When reading a specially crafted JPEG file, metadata-extractor up to 2.16.0 can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out-of-memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use metadata-extractor library.
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"github_reviewed": true,
"nvd_published_at": "2022-02-24T15:15:00Z",
"github_reviewed_at": "2022-03-07T19:35:30Z",
"severity": "HIGH",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-770"
]
}